Steps to reduce my impact

I’ve been reading this excellent book that my friend Carl recommended to me when I visited him earlier this year. It’s a book that has various suggestions on how we can all be better eco-citizens. In some part due to this and the ramblings of one of my co-workers I decided it was time to reduce the number of plastic bags that I seem to acquire in mass throughout the week. To that end I’ve ordered some hemp/cotton bags from http://www.reusablebags.com. My personal goal is to reduce the number of bags I acquire by at least half in the next few months. We shall see how well that goes.

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2 Responses to “Steps to reduce my impact”

We bought some bags made of recycled plastic at our local grocery store (I wanted hemp canvas, but these were only $0.99. We’ve almost completely eliminated shopping bags now. I think our next target will be the plastic vegetable bags (which we reuse anyway, but still collect.)

So far it’s working out pretty well, but there are times when I realize how ill-equipped America is for such a switch. Actually just this week when I kindly told the lady at Target that I wanted to use my own bag she gave me a really really dirty look. What is so wrong with that? Ugh.

It sounds like your also headed down a good path. If you are looking for some good veggie bags, the “Evert-Fresh” bags that the website above sells really seem to keep things “fresher” longer. Well at least with my bananas.